Political Quotes

“Until we amended the Constitution with the 16th amendment. So we did not even contemplate reaching into people's pockets time and time and time again with ever-increasing income taxes to pass that money on to some government program to solve a problem. But there are dozens of other differences in the role of the Federal Government today. I firmly believe that the Enumerated Powers Doctrine says that this Congress can only do a certain limited number of things. There are actually only 18 enumerated powers in the U.S. Constitution. Yet this Congress does a whole lot of things that it is not supposed to do under that doctrine. The 10th amendment says you are not supposed to do any of those things, but rather those authorities belong to the States and to the people. Yet the 10th amendment and the Enumerated Powers Doctrine have almost been completely read out of the Constitution. While I regret that, those are the facts. That means that it is appropriate to amend the Constitution and to say wait; before you raise taxes yet one more time, we are going to make the bar a little higher.”